Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...
at [email protected] for details. Frontal assaults on an entrenched position rarely work. I get the idea, throwing a massive group of men at the enemy’s main line, designed to overwhelm them for a ...
El Dorado Hills, Ca.: Savas Beatie, 2012. Pp. viii, 158. Illus., maps, notes, appends. $16.95 paper. ISBN: 1611211468 Burnside's Disaster at Fredericksburg Part of Savas Beatie’s ‘Emerging Civil War ...
Lincoln, Lee and Stonewall Jackson figure prominently in this historically accurate but wooden fictionalized account of the disastrous 1862 Union defeat at Fredericksburg. As the book opens, Lincoln ...
2012-12-15T18:12:23-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a57/309487-m.jpgAuthor and University of Alabama history professor George Rable talked about the December ...
Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops had ...
2012-12-15T18:12:23-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...
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